People v. Corder

Plaintiff in error, John F. Corder, was convicted in the circuit court of Vermilion county of murder and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of forty years. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment of conviction on the grounds that the indictment is insufficient; that the petit jury was not legally drawn; that the State was permitted to call witnesses not included in the list furnished him under a rule entered on arraignment; that the name of deceased was not proven as laid in the indictment; that the court improperly admitted a statement of deceased as…